[Proj] Change in +prog=eqc behavior from 4.5.0 to 4.6.1

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:30:36 pm Orion Poplawski wrote:
> With 4.5.0:
>
> proj +proj=eqc +lon_0=0 +a=5.3049894774131808e-315
>
> does not complain.
>
> With 4.6.1:
>
> proj +proj=eqc +lon_0=0 +a=5.3049894774131808e-315
> Rel. 4.6.1, 21 August 2008
> <proj>:
> projection initialization failure
> cause: no system list, errno: 34
>
> program abnormally terminated
>
>
> Is this expected?  If so, what needs to be done to get it to work in 4.6.1?
>
> Thanks for any help.

I do not get the point with the absurd value of +a=?

Does the program fail with a more sane specification of +a?

gie at charon:~$ lproj +proj=eqc +lon_0=0 +a=5.3049894774131808e-315
1 1
0.00    0.00
20 20
0.00    0.00
gie at charon:~$ lproj +proj=eqc +lon_0=0 +a=1000
10 10
174.53  174.53
gie at charon:~$

In my case, lproj just returns junk zeroes for a junk major axis.  Dunno why, 
don't care.

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